Metro: Progressives win up and down ballot ⁠28%

By Sam Corey⁠28%

8/5/2026, 12:45:49 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Anchoring Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 30.7% saturation with 85 hits. Analysis detected 477 faulty-reasoning hits from 277 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 31.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠28% (21,356 of 29,339 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.80% of the article peer group.

Michigan primaries usually come and go with most people not voting. 
They’re low-profile elections in August, and turnout tends to land somewhere around a quarter of registered voters. 
Last night was different. 
Over 1.5 million ballots were counted in the Democratic Senate primary alone. 
That’s more than any non-presidential Democratic primary in this state going back to at least 1998. 
That race, between Congresswoman Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, is the most expensive Democratic Senate primary in history . 
El-Sayed won the primary. 
Other progressive candidates in other races won too. 
Zach Gorchow is president of Gongwer News Service of Michigan and has covered state politics for a long time. 
He spoke with The Metro ‘s Robyn Vincent about how this election shook out, and what it may mean come November. 
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